Young leaders educating and empowering their peers to prevent violence.
Young leaders educating and empowering their peers to prevent violence.
Students Against Violence Everywhere (SAVE) Promise Club is the youth leadership initiative of Sandy Hook Promise. Led by our Youth Advisory Board, the aim is to empower young leaders to take an active role in increasing school safety and preventing violence in their schools and communities.
Every SAVE Promise Club is centered around the four E’s:
A SAVE Promise Club can be a stand-alone club or embedded into an existing club, such as student council or another student leadership, civic, or kindness club.
Overseen by our National Youth Advisory Board, each club receives tools and resources to plan events, activities, and projects that help raise awareness of risk factors like bullying and social isolation, and promote kindness, respect and belonging.
It’s easy for students to start a SAVE Promise Club in their school or community.
Get the approval and support of your school or youth organization’s administration.
Questions to ask:
What approval is needed to start a Club?
How will you present Club information to administrators? Who will help?
Who will be the Club’s adult advisor?
Once approval has been provided, put together a core planning group.
Members should include school administration, key staff, including those interested in being advisors, possibly parents, and most importantly, students!
Registered Clubs receive:
Youth leaders and adult advisors receive all the support they need for running a successful SAVE Promise Club. Resources include a comprehensive training workshop for new Club leaders. Learn about training for Adult Advisors.
SAVE Promise Club leaders meet with their advisor regularly to plan monthly or quarterly activities throughout the school year. Some of the most popular are:
As part of the SAVE Promise Club experience, Youth Leadership Training events provide club members with a range of opportunities to meet and share experiences with their peers, develop and practice leadership skills, and learn how to take an active role in creating safer schools and communities.
Alex Orange, a 17-year-old football player from West Charlotte, NC, was known as someone who looked out for others. In April 1989, Alex joined 200 of his classmates at a party. When a carload of young men from a rival school showed up armed and looking for trouble, Alex stepped forward, telling the intruders this was no place for violence. Sadly, the situation escalated, and shots were fired. Alex lost his life that day.
The next week, Alex’s classmates returned to classes, mourning yet another young life lost to gun violence. They vowed to work for change in Alex’s honor, forming Students Against Violence Everywhere (SAVE).
In 2017, SAVE and Sandy Hook Promise combined efforts, forming the SAVE Promise Club, dedicated to educating and empowering young people to prevent violence nationwide.
Organized by young people for young people! This 1-day event is held each April, bringing together hundreds of students from across the United States to connect on important issues like youth mental health, social isolation, and violence prevention.
Attendees gather for a full day of student-led workshops, speakers, and activities designed to encourage, educate, engage, and empower. Students leave the Summit with new friends and fresh ideas to bring home to their local SAVE Promise Club.
Explore these sample SAVE Promise Club resources
A detailed, self-directed orientation for new Club leaders and members.
A Toolkit for student leaders and adult advisors to launch, sustain, and grow their SAVE Promise Club. Includes timelines, action plans, recruitment activities, communication tools, lesson plans, and much more.
A guide for Club leaders that’s packed with information and thought starters for Club activities during each month of the school year.
SAVE Promise Club Advisors: Use this form to register a new or existing Club in your school or community.
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